Catching up :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. You license the code to the Apache Software Foundation giving
the foundation the rights to relicense under any license (so the
foundation can upgrade the license as they did with ASL2). We do ask
that you change the copyrights on the version of the code you give to
the ASF to something like "Copyright 2004 The Apache Software
Foundation or its licensors, as applicable."
That _is_ transferring the copyright.
No, it isn't. You are still the copyright holder of the contributed
material. The (c) statement that Dain suggested represents the
collective copyright of the whole package, which is your original code
(for which you hold the copyright), and additions from other people (who
individually hold copyright or share copyright depending on the
contribution.)
That's why it's "or it's licensors", which you would certainly be.
As I told Jeff on the phone, I would definitely considering this if it
turns that evs4j will really be used, but I would rather not grant someone
an unlimited license at the present time. Jeff said we are going to have a
discussion, so we'll know more soon enough.
The Apache License is fairly close to an unlimited license, so if it's
available under the AL, you are already there.
The only thing different is that you are giving the ASF the ability to
distribute the collective work under other terms other than the current
version of the Apache License.
I hope that makes you feel a little more comfortable about things.
geir
